Wine,
made simple.
A pocket sommelier for the curious. Learn wine through illustrated frameworks, daily tasting practice, grape and region guides, and producer context written with one clear, trusted point of view.
Build wine confidence. Ten questions a day.
A short daily tasting drill, built to make grapes, regions, pairings, and service easier to remember.
Ten fresh questions,
matched to how you learn.
Topics rotate across tasting, grapes, regions, pairing, service, and winemaking.
Try a question.
Pick a topic and level, then try one sommelier-written question.
One atlas. Many frameworks.
12 chapters. Interactive deep dives. Try the sparkling wine comparison below.
Understanding Sparkling Wine
Choose a lens. Watch four styles respond.
Behind every bottle,
a real palate.
I'm Gina. Certified Sommelier (CMS), WSET Level 3 Distinction holder, and former Google PM.
From teaching colleagues at Google to working the 2025 harvest in Bordeaux, the path was twenty years in the making. Sommplicity is the result: technology with a real palate behind it. Every tool tested, every framework vetted.
Wine is confusing.
Sommplicity isn't.
Sommplicity started as a notebook. I was studying for the Certified Sommelier exam and couldn't find resources that made wine feel organized instead of overwhelming. So I built them.
Every framework on this site comes from real study, real certification exams, and real conversations at the table. It's built by one sommelier who believes wine education should be structured, visual, and honest. No gatekeeping. No pretension. Just clarity, one topic at a time.
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
Sommplicity takes the rigor and discipline of professional wine education and makes it simple. So it can be enjoyed, and understood, by many.
Gina Biernacki,
certified sommelier.
Certified Sommelier (CMS, 2022), WSET Level 3 Distinction holder, former product manager at Google.
Every framework on Sommplicity has been hand-curated, designed and tested by a working sommelier. The standards are the ones the wine world already agrees on. The job is to make them clearer.
Methodical frameworks,
brought to the wine world.
Twenty years of training in consulting, business school and product management. The same tools for clarity, structure and learning systems, applied to a field that still leans on memorization.
MBA and Product Manager at Google
Consulting at Bain, MBA from Chicago Booth, PM at Google. The toolkit: frameworks, decomposition, learning loops.
WSET Level 3, Distinction
Advanced wine knowledge, the way the industry teaches it. Memorization-heavy, framework-light. Noticed the gap.
Certified Sommelier, CMS
Earned the pin. Complex domains get learned faster when the structure is visible.
Harvest at Puy Savage, Bordeaux
A lifelong dream. Worked the harvest with a small Bordeaux producer. Ground-truth for everything taught from a textbook.
Sommplicity and the SF community
Pop-ups, private events, and corporate gatherings across the Bay Area. Frameworks first, gatekeeping never.
Private events. Bay Area events.
Private tastings, corporate events, bread and wine pairings, and consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Private Tastings
4 to 20 guests in your home or venue. Themed around any region, grape, or style.
Corporate Events
Sessions at Google, Xfinity, and across the Bay Area tech ecosystem.
Wine Consulting
List development, training, and pairing menus for restaurants and hospitality groups.
